Thread:Mixed talk/@comment-27493717-20180811160656/@comment-27493717-20180819100636

Sure. Go ahead. ^^

My dad and myself are currently trying to install a gnome GUI (graphical interface) over at the test machtine, so that we can go ahead and add more features to the wiki. Downloading and adding new packages to the machine, like the "tabbers" add-on for example, is borderline impossible with a text-only interface.

Yesterday, I created the first few templates over at the test wiki.

I used wikitables to create mimicked versions of the Character and Voice templates and used the infobox data from Zenki's article to test them.

The content was displayed just fine, but I couldn't add switches to make parts of the infobox only appear when data is added, so I had to create sub-templates for different cases.

From what I saw, even basic parser functions like adding switches aren't supported by default and need to be installed separately. So as long as the "parser functions" add-on isn't installed, I can't create infoboxes with multiple options without being forced to create alternate versions with less or more attributes.

So, if you have a character, that has only a Japanese voice actor credited, you need to use the Voice template for that case, but if they have a Japanese and an English one listed, you need to use a different version of the Voice template.

And if you used the Japanese/English one for the first case, then you would end up with an infobox looking like this:

With a switch case, you wouldn't need the Japanese-only subtemplate, because the English section of the infobox would only appear when you actually enter a voice actors name.

Anyways, I also made an admin account for my dad, because he wanted to check out the wiki as well.

So if you see a user called "Reinhard" with admin/bureaucrat rights around the test wiki later on, then it's my dad floating around. He also never participated in a wiki before, is really curious about the whole thing. Yesterday, he said: "Hey! I might learn something new as well!"

At the moment, the GUI installer is still running, but once its done, I am going to have a look at it and test it by installing the "tabber" add-on.

Yesterday, my dad already tested it, but we had to little disk space, so the computer crashed. Luckily, I am making restore points every evening and we are running a virtual machine on our raspberry pi, so restoring the machine to a working state and simply adding more ressources to it wasn't much of a hassle.